Commemorative Postcard

ID: 633 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
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Commemorative Postcard

An architect's sketch of the $525,000 educational building and chapel built in the mid-1950s at First Baptist Church. The additions allowed the church to have additional fellowship space without compromising the integrity of the original auditorium.

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By George Graves & Amanda Sawyer
On May 31, 1851, four charter members established the First Baptist Church of Waco. These members reached out to prominent missionary and Texan Rev. Noah T. Byers, offering him a salary of seventy-five dollars per year to pastor the church. The…